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* [PATCH bpf] bpf/verifier: disallow pointer subtraction
@ 2018-09-12 21:06 Alexei Starovoitov
  2018-09-12 21:48 ` Daniel Borkmann
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Alexei Starovoitov @ 2018-09-12 21:06 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: David S . Miller; +Cc: daniel, netdev, kernel-team

Subtraction of pointers was accidentally allowed for unpriv programs
by commit 82abbf8d2fc4. Revert that part of commit.

Fixes: 82abbf8d2fc4 ("bpf: do not allow root to mangle valid pointers")
Reported-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Acked-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
---
 kernel/bpf/verifier.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/bpf/verifier.c b/kernel/bpf/verifier.c
index 92246117d2b0..bb07e74b34a2 100644
--- a/kernel/bpf/verifier.c
+++ b/kernel/bpf/verifier.c
@@ -3163,7 +3163,7 @@ static int adjust_reg_min_max_vals(struct bpf_verifier_env *env,
 				 * an arbitrary scalar. Disallow all math except
 				 * pointer subtraction
 				 */
-				if (opcode == BPF_SUB){
+				if (opcode == BPF_SUB && env->allow_ptr_leaks) {
 					mark_reg_unknown(env, regs, insn->dst_reg);
 					return 0;
 				}
-- 
2.17.1

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